Poll: Udall, Hickenlooper ahead in races

WASHINGTON — The top two Democrats up for re-election this year in Colorado — Sen. Mark Udall and Gov. John Hickenlooper — each have a small but solid lead over their Republican rivals according to a poll released today by NBC News/Marist.

The survey found that Udall was outpacing opponent U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, by a margin of 48 to 41 percent. Hickenlooper was up 49 to 43 percent over GOP nominee Bob Beauprez. The margin of error was 3.2 percent. The poll of 914 registered voters was conducted between July 7 and 10.

No word if this poll counted any of the new refugees from Central America and Mexico. Counting them ought to make the Hickenlooper / Udall lead even more “solid.”

http://americablog.com magster

I love the taste of your tears.

mayorquimby9

You mean America’s tears as we weep at how the left is destroying the country.

http://americablog.com magster

Yes, your version of “America’s” tears. A version that gets smaller and smaller as demographics change.

jaxbeachfl

Udall is to extreme for Colorado. He does not want to protect our borders and does not want us to be able to protect our homes.

His votes:
Border Security Bill – Nay
Secure [Border] Fence Act of 2006 – Nay
Immigration Law Enforcement Act of 2006 – Nay
Requires the Completion of the Fence
Along the United States-Mexico Border – Nay
Requires US-VISIT System to be
Established at Every Port of Entry – Nay
Requiring Completion of Reinforced
Border Fencing – Nay
National Guard Deployment on
Southern U.S. Land Border – Nay

blockmccloud

If he’s too extreme for Colorado, why is he beating the republican challenger with women voters by 12 points, with latino voters by 31 points, and with independent voters by 16 points? it’s obvious who the extreme one is and it isn’t Udall.

mayorquimby9

In a lefty poll. Wait until Quinn comes out.

Yes, but he’s losing male and white voters. I would say Udalls the more extreme given that. Always more moochers.

blockmccloud

Gardner is the one losing the independent, women, and latino voters. Gardner is too extreme for a blue state like Colorado.

Average_Voter

Whenever either side uses the word “extreme,” it’s a red flag that whatever they are spouting is pure BS. Neither Udall or Gardner are extreme because the large number of people who support one candidate, or the other, are not extremists themselves.

blockmccloud

Gardner supports personhood which would ban all abortion. That is extreme.

blockmccloud

And? He’s winning independents, women, and latinos. More than enough to push Udall over the finish line for the win.

Average_Voter

If Udall is waiting for Latinos to receive… then send back… their mail-in ballots to carry him across the finish line, his campaign is in trouble. Latinos traditionally are not motivated to vote in off year elections. Independents are pretty upset with the president, particularly over Obamacare and his arbitrary executive orders. They are primed and ready to vote for GOP candidates, down the ballot, to push back on the Democratic overreach at both the state and federal level.

blockmccloud

After the GOP blocking immigration reform, they will be motivated. Independents lean left. The GOP have become so extreme.

Average_Voter

The angriest people I have ever heard, on the immigration issue, are the immigrants who came into the U.S. legally. They are furious that the illegals — and they are illegals — can flaunt the immigration laws and now demand a shortcut to legalization.

Sure, illegals feel that the GOP are blocking immigration reform, but they don’t get to vote, do they? Besides, the waves of Central America children poring across the southern border has plenty of Americans rethinking their position on immigration reform. Clearly, we cannot consider the border to be secure, if preteens can breech it.

Independents lean whichever way is necessary to keep Colorado purple. They actually believed the promises “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” and “if you like your doctor, you can keep him/her.” They are not in a forgiving mood. The state and nation are drifting too far to the left and it is the independents who will be voting to pull it back to the center.

blockmccloud

Independents voting for far right people is not pulling anything back to the center.

http://americablog.com magster

He’s too extreme for the new state of Northern Colorado.

jaxbeachfl

I can see why you support him since he voted for TARP 2 to bail out the banks and Wall street.

davebarnes

Open Borders!
Let everyone in who follows the same rules as my ancestors did when they came to America.

a420bowlkilla

Udall wasn’t even a senator in 2006, how could he vote in congress if he wasnt a senator back then…..

Wayne Allard & Ken Salazar where the ones there during 2006….

Quit making stuff up please.

You wrote:

His votes:
Border Security Bill – Nay
Secure [Border] Fence Act of 2006 – Nay
Immigration Law Enforcement Act of 2006 – Nay
Requires the Completion of the Fence
Along the United States-Mexico Border – Nay
Requires US-VISIT System to be
Established at Every Port of Entry – Nay
Requiring Completion of Reinforced
Border Fencing – Nay
National Guard Deployment on
Southern U.S. Land Border – Nay

jaxbeachfl

He also voted when he was in the House of Representatives. Think before you make wild accusations,

“The people of Colorado elected Mark Udall to the U.S. Senate in 2008. Prior to that, he represented the state’s 2nd Congressional District for five terms (from 1999-08).”

kdhardy

Is the Post setting up the left’s excuse if both Gardner and Beauprez win the election was stolen. A month ago Udall and Gardner were in a virtual dead heat.

FocoRigido

U(D)all and ex-gov. Hickenlooper-Bloomberg Jr. Both gone in Nov. Recalled/forced to resign State Senators, Morse (D), Giron (D), and Hudak (D) were just the beginning. Because of their unfitness to hold Public Office, the (D)’s have set in motion their systematic removal from Political Office in CO. Nov. will be a time of rage/mourning for the (D)’s. Their day of reckoning is upon them, and they’ ain’t liking it one little bit. They’re finished and they know it. The closer it gets to Nov., the nuttier the (D) control-freaks will become. :)

blockmccloud

Yeah, Romney by a landslide. The Colorado GOP are done in November. Udall is beating Gardner by double digits among latino, women, and independent voters and Gardner and the Colorado GOP aren’t liking it one bit. ;)

http://americablog.com magster

For the Republicans to re-take the Senate, they need CO and/or IA and/or MI. Republicans look good for pickups in MT, WV, and SD, but Republicans are surprisingly losing in KY and GA for losing seats, and are losing in states where they thought they’d get pickups in LA, AK, AR and NC.

preph

Mag, You are way off. Republicans need 6 seats. They already have 3 (WV, SD and MT. They need 3 more and have Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Alaska, Iowa and Colorado to get them from. Republicans are not losing KY and GA. The Republicans will pick up 7 or 8 seats.

http://americablog.com magster

Look at the most recent polls. Dems are winning in all the states you listed besides the 3 we agree are going to go red.

It will all come down to turnout, and the polling is also showing that Hobby Lobby, the Boehner lawsuit and no immigration reform is mobilizing Dem voters even though this is an off year.

If you can stomach a link to dailykos, click below. The article has internal links to the pollsters’ websites.

Republicans will likely lose KY and GA. Mitch Mcconnell is very unpopular in KY and many tea partiers in KY who supported Matt Bevin will stay home or vote for Grimes. Grimes received 95,000 more votes than Mcconnell in the primaries and MORE democrats voted in the primaries than republicans. Mcconnell is the #1 obstructionist in the senate and he will be retired in November.

Average_Voter

But Barack Obama is widely unpopular in both KY and GA. It won’t be hard to link the Democratic candidates, in both those states, as additional votes for the Obama agenda. That alone will carry the GOP candidates to victory in those very red states, especially KY where coal is king!

blockmccloud

So is Mitch Mcconnell. Grimes received 95,000 more votes than Mcconnell. Mitch will be retired come November

a420bowlkilla

Ha!
Contraception rights & immigration reform are two things…..oh, and there’s many, many MORE on OUR ‘grocery list’ for Nov….

jaxbeachfl

We let in one million legal immigrants and 600,000 guest workers a year, more than twice the population of Denver. How many more would you let in?

Average_Voter

The Quinnipiac poll, released today, found Bob Beauprez at 44 percent and John Hickenlooper at 43 percent. This is a big jump from the April Quinnipiac poll right after Beauprez got in the race that showed Hickenlooper ahead 48% to 39%.

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